粵

超ciu1譯jik6

simp超译
ciu1 jik6chāo yì

English

  1. a translation that takes liberties with the original text
  2. reinterpreting a text in one's own understanding, which may deviate from the original meaning

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 用自己理解嘅方式去重新表達,可能包括添加或刪減原意

Examples

  • 我哋叫人慎重考慮會用「三思」,但呢個講法係超譯咗孔子。佢本身只係叫人諗多一次。

    When we ask people to reconsider something, we say "think thrice". But this is a liberal reinterpretation of Confucious, who actually advocated for thinking twice only.

Sources: cc-cedict, words.hk

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